5 things you need to know about I’m Wanita

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Matthew Walker’s new film about a renegade middle-aged Australian country music singer who attempts to hold things together long enough so she can get to Nashville, record her definitive album and fulfil a lifelong dream opens in select cinemas around Australia…

Australia Independent Film Festival is back!

The Australia Independent Film Festival will return next month, and the festival’s organisers tell Cinema Australia this year’s event will be bigger and better than ever before. The Brisbane-based festival will run over two days in October at Metro Arts West End. Join filmmakers and film lovers for one of Queensland’s biggest annual celebrations of…

Review: Moon Rock for Monday

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Directed by Kurt MartinWritten by Kurt MartinProduced by Jim RobisonStarring Ashlyn Louden-Gamble, George Pullar, Aaron Jeffery, David Field, Alan Dukes, Clarence Ryan and Nicolas Hope “Whimsical and sweet. Moon Rock for Monday is a very special film.” by…

Cinema Australia Podcast #68 | Erik Thomson

Cinema Australia Original Content: Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Erik Thomson is one of my favourite actors. I’ve enjoyed most of Erik’s work, with Packed to the Rafters, Aftertaste and The Furnace being among my favourites.   Thomson is one of Australia’s most beloved actors, becoming…

Occupation filmmaker Luke Sparke developing Axis of Time trilogy

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Sparke Films has secured the television rights to the Axis of Time trilogy, the best-selling novels by John Birmingham. The epic drama television series, tentatively titled Weapons of Choice after the first book in the series, is in late development with…

Exclusive Clip: The Bowraville Murders

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Cinema Australia readers have been treated to an exclusive clip from, The Bowraville Murders – a new documentary tracing the epic David vs Goliath battle for justice waged by the families of three Aboriginal children murdered in a small rural town…

New Clip! Jason Isaacs, Jake Ryan and Levi Miller in Streamline

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. READ OUR REVIEW HERE READ OUR INTERVIEW WITH TASIA ZALAR HERE Tyson Wade Johnston’s Streamline will release in select cinemas around Australia from today. The rest of the country will be able to enjoy the experience when it commences streaming on…

Shooting wraps on Jordon Prince-Wright’s World War I epic Before Dawn

Help us continue to cover more Australian films by making a donation to Cinema Australia below. Prince-Wright Productions has wrapped principal photography in Western Australia on World War I epic, Before Dawn.  Before Dawn will bring to the big screen the untold story of some of Australia’s greatest military victories. The script, inspired by the real-life diary…